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If possible, could someone from the Apple community please tell me if Yosemite will be faster / lighter than snow leopard? I don't want an OS that requires 8 gigs of ram to run "fast" like Mavericks requires.
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Yes, I agree. I'm a professional visual designer, FWIW. After 22 years on Macintosh, I've completely transitioned to Crunchbang on a MacBook Pro and a Windows 7/Crunchbang dual-boot workstation. I really like the translucency and general look of Win7. I had started to feel like OS X was visually dated, but more importantly, harming my workflow. For development and design, I am working nearly twice as fast in the OS u…
I'm really curious what you use for your design process. Are GIMP and Inkscape solid enough now that you can spend all day in them without tearing your hair out?
Which parts of the front window in this screenshot[0] are draggable? Maybe this is just me, but I don't like how the titlebar and window contents are visually merged. [0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/images/overview_design_her...
Agreed. It seems to miss a step, some additional stuff that they couldn't include now but would have made the design complete. For instance it would work if one could drag any area of a window that doesn't react to a click (like the white space between the bubbles in the chat window). Or additional gestures to easily rearrange/move the windows, something like three finger scroll make the window follow the fingers ins…
I am deeply disappointed by the "development" of OS X. It seems that Apple has long ago gutted their x86 OS group due to dwindling profits and lack of real competition. There are a handful of reasons people buy a Mac, and I would largely put them into three groups: * Students looking for a stable and/or sexy device for their university. * Artists using applications that don't exist on other platforms (or that priorit…
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I'm especially shocked this has taken so long because the technology is ancient: Windows has had a "Use this computer as a Bluetooth Headset" option buried in the Bluetooth preferences for a long time now. The Address Book in Mac OS 10.0 and 10.1 would also let you send and receive SMSes with compatible phones (no joke): http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/11/27/sms.html And Linux has had a few projects (li…
>Windows has had a "Use this computer as a Bluetooth Headset" option buried in the Bluetooth preferences for a long time now. Depends which Bluetooth stack you have installed on Windows.
The stack that I know works is the Broadcom / WIDCOMM one.
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How is ⌘` buggy?
I don't know which of the two are "buggy", but command-tab and command-tidle have different behaviors: command-tab will let you toggle back and forth between last two apps - sort of a classic alt-tab behavior from Windows and various UNIX WMs. command-tilde goes through your windows in a stack, in one direction, and you have to modify it with shift to go a different way. Further, if you destroy a window after command…
Command-Shift-` will reverse the order Command-Tab will flip back and forth unless you exceed the delay while still holding command, at which point you can cycle through the stack. Holding shift reverses the direction.
That being said, I agree that swapping back and forth in between windows of the same app is very useful and it's a pity that the two features aren't made to work in the same way. I'd like to do a quick Command-` to toggle two windows, or hold it down to see the list of windows for the current app.
The upgrades to Safari look amazing! [0] Less chrome, Javascript benchmarks (impressive), and the spotlight search in the url...nice! I hope Apple changes the zoom button to maximize the screen. [0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/apps/
Looks like Epiphany, the Gnome browser... [0] Actually, a lot of OS X Yosemite borrows from Gnome's Gtk+, like headerbars [1] [0] http://i.imgur.com/xBof95c.png [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.10/GtkHeaderBar.html
If possible, could someone from the Apple community please tell me if Yosemite will be faster / lighter than snow leopard? I don't want an OS that requires 8 gigs of ram to run "fast" like Mavericks requires.
Everything is connected, everything goes online. Spotlight, HomeKit, HealthKit etc will all send information on you to Google, Apple, advertisers, insurance companies and governments.
It's never been more convenient to let governments track absolutely everything about you - your location, the temperature inside your apartment, your heart rate, your interests & worries, your communications.. everything.
Combine this with driverless cars. You write a chat message on your iPhone that offends your government's sensibilities, and after a few seconds, your car will lock its doors and promptly drive you to the nearest gulag.